[General Discussion] I'll get around to it, I swear!

I am completely hopeless in this regard. I didn't have this problem before, but when I was out of work for a time I started a habit of slowing down on games and letting them breathe because, I would tell myself, "you must savor this as it'll be a good while with steady pay before you can pick up the one after this." Of course, now I have steady pay, and a titanic backlog. My resolution for 2006 was to finish 12 games this year, and I'm still 2 games short. The most likely candidates to round out that list (going back no earlier than Dreamcast):

Border Down (suck at it)
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (can't seem to squeeze a good time out of this one, but I'll try again soon, as it seems to be the last BoF Capcom will ever make...)
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (fun game, but I'm a bit CV-ed out, as 2 of the games I took out for this year were Harmony and Aria in rapid succession)
Dragon Quest VIII (finished the Waterfall Cave...somewhat engaging, but put off 'til I finish at least one other RPG)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (trouble with those hulking creatures drains the fun)
Final Fantasy X-2 (going through with guide to give my sister 100% on the first runthough; about as fun as it sounds)
God of War (in the moving temple in the desert, bored silly)
Grandia 2 (found it's a lot less fun once Ryudo loses the cip on his shoulder)
Halo (borrowed from a friend; not really good at it, not engaged enough to force it)
Jak & Daxter (stopped near the end to let it breathe, loaded it up recently and can't play it to save my life...a pity since I bought the sequels on the cheap this year)
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (right at the last boss, but I absolutely refuse to finish it until I get 150 gems on the second funhouse)
Megaman X: Command Mission (stalled at Chapter 9 due to soul-crushing ennui)
Megaman ZX (LOVE this one, but going slow until I can get copies of Zero 3 and 4 for past boss lovin')
Metroid Prime (just got the X-Ray Visor and just plain got bored of retracing the entire map for odds and ends...it's almost as bad as Wind Waker's Triforce hunt)
Neo Contra (that timed 30-second boss at the end of Stage 6 is as cheap as anything else in the universe)
Ninja Gaiden Black (Level 7 is miserable)
Okami (actively playing, but only past the second boss)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (I play this slowly for some reason)
R-Type Final (I just can't handle the distorted-space stage)
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (not as fun as the first, but only early on...soon maybe, but not now)
Silent Hill 3 (ran out of patience after the first boss)
Super Mario Sunshine (got all the seek-out-and-grab-'em Shines, but there's an obscene amount of Blue Coins left to get and even equipped with a tell-all FAQ on my lap, I can't be bothered)
Super Princess Peach (fun when I'm playing it, but I'm always putting it off for something else, which is unfair)
Wild Arms 3 (kinda like J&D...stopped near the end to let it breathe, loaded it up recently and can't remember what the dammity hell I was doing)
Xenosaga (out of containment and finding it impossible to force myself forward anymore)

And the ones I haven't yet started:

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (my sister's brother-in-law found this abandoned at the school where he works, gave it to them; they had it already, gave this to me. Maybe in a lull)
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (tried it briefly on Christmas Day - it plays well, but you can quite literally make and eat a sandwich in the time it takes to load a stage...maybe when I'm done with Ratchet)
Dark Cloud (just trying to finish other games first)
Jak 2 & 3 (first game's in the lurch)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (ditto)
Phantom Brave (wanna wait'll I have Disgaea and La Pucelle first)
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (working on Commando)

33 games, and only from recent generations...sigh.

Jam it back in, in the dark.